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Every year, West Coast LEAF grades BC on how it’s meeting its international obligations on women’s rights. Every year, for the most part, we find meaningful progress lacking. So, how is BC measuring up on women’s equality in 2016?
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What good is equality law if it doesn’t offer meaningful protection to those who experience the most discrimination and marginalization in our society? This week, West Coast LEAF is at the BC Court of Appeal in coalition with the
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Imagine you have a roommate who’s also a friend and sometimes picks up your child from school as a favour to you. Would you expect your roommate to provide for you financially just because they sometimes help out with
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Today, West Coast LEAF is in Calgary for the start of the judicial inquiry into remarks made by Justice Robin Camp during a sexual assault trial in Alberta provincial court in 2014. The Canadian Judicial Council inquiry will determine
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This week, West Coast LEAF called on post-secondary institutions in British Columbia to develop effective, robust policies to protect survivors of sexual violence and misconduct on campus. The law requiring campus policies sets a low bar for the protections
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This week, West Coast LEAF called on all levels of government to commit to meaningfully address violence against Indigenous women and girls through a robust, effective national inquiry. Following decades of advocacy by Indigenous and women’s rights activists, the
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No one should have to choose between their financial security and their reproductive rights. In British Columbia today, having children and taking care of them – roles that disproportionately fall to women – can lead to inequality in employment
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When my infant daughter was rushed to hospital with a respiratory problem, the ambulance attendants would not let my son come with us, and the transition house staff told me that I could not leave my son there. In
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At this moment in Canadian history, there is a crisis in public confidence in the justice system’s handling of sexual assault cases. And for good reason: Justice Robin Camp’s well-publicized remarks during a 2014 sexual assault trial in Alberta
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West Coast LEAF is the only organization in BC that uses the law to further gender equality. We work to end gender-based discrimination using equality rights litigation, law reform, and public legal education.